Post by mtkau on Apr 14, 2009 7:41:51 GMT -5
I was going to post this in an episode forum, but decided to shift it here. I'm wondering what people thought might happen to Bonnie in a theoretically "college" season.
The homecoming episode (where Bonnie tries to steal Ron from KP) brings up a point I made on another forum, in that I was nearing the end of the series, and asked "Does Bonnie get any development?" The episode pretty much answered that for me.
Libby from Sabrina had better development, and the "stuck like glue" scenario that played out on both shows, was done better on that show as well (Libby has a controlling Those shoes are mine, betch. of a mother, but Libby also takes care of her grandmother. Bonnie has the her sisters, but nothing else redeems her. It doesn't even make her a stronger character, I just say "Oh, your family treat you like garbage, and all you do is hang naco on Kim, bringing a bad side out of Kim when she retaliates", that's not cool.
It's really the only regular part of the show I disliked (apart from the bullshit stereotypical nerd portrayal of Cousin Larry, maybe Larry, Ned and some other nerd could have stolen the deans car or gone on panty raids together), in a show that prided itself on subverting alot of the usual sterotypes, Larry and Bonnie clearly stand out as unchanging characters with very little development, their inherent skew of "Good" (Larry) and "Bad" (Bonnie) being about the only thing we ever really see of them.
I could only hope that by Season 5/College (as I assume they would all get put in Middleton University or whatever together with Tara/Monique etc) they would have let Bonnie grow up a little.
I would suspect that the near non-existence of a food chain, there might have been development if they decided to go down the path that popularity desiring people go through once they leave High School, ie being abandoned as no-one wants to waste their time with a controlling b*tch.
Perhaps a move to local (dorm?) housing might have been a part of this, getting away from her toxic family might have improved her character (both as a "character" and her moral "character"). I don't think the writers would have gone down the "two's company" cliche of sticking Bonnie and Kim in the same room, maybe Tara/Kim to allow interaction between the 3.
So yeah, anyone else have thoughts on this?
The homecoming episode (where Bonnie tries to steal Ron from KP) brings up a point I made on another forum, in that I was nearing the end of the series, and asked "Does Bonnie get any development?" The episode pretty much answered that for me.
Libby from Sabrina had better development, and the "stuck like glue" scenario that played out on both shows, was done better on that show as well (Libby has a controlling Those shoes are mine, betch. of a mother, but Libby also takes care of her grandmother. Bonnie has the her sisters, but nothing else redeems her. It doesn't even make her a stronger character, I just say "Oh, your family treat you like garbage, and all you do is hang naco on Kim, bringing a bad side out of Kim when she retaliates", that's not cool.
It's really the only regular part of the show I disliked (apart from the bullshit stereotypical nerd portrayal of Cousin Larry, maybe Larry, Ned and some other nerd could have stolen the deans car or gone on panty raids together), in a show that prided itself on subverting alot of the usual sterotypes, Larry and Bonnie clearly stand out as unchanging characters with very little development, their inherent skew of "Good" (Larry) and "Bad" (Bonnie) being about the only thing we ever really see of them.
I could only hope that by Season 5/College (as I assume they would all get put in Middleton University or whatever together with Tara/Monique etc) they would have let Bonnie grow up a little.
I would suspect that the near non-existence of a food chain, there might have been development if they decided to go down the path that popularity desiring people go through once they leave High School, ie being abandoned as no-one wants to waste their time with a controlling b*tch.
Perhaps a move to local (dorm?) housing might have been a part of this, getting away from her toxic family might have improved her character (both as a "character" and her moral "character"). I don't think the writers would have gone down the "two's company" cliche of sticking Bonnie and Kim in the same room, maybe Tara/Kim to allow interaction between the 3.
So yeah, anyone else have thoughts on this?